From making it easier for everyone to experience and enjoy our city’s culture to ensuring the 2012 Games have a significant and lasting cultural impact - the Mayor’s draft Cultural Strategy will set out his plan for the future of culture in London. It outlines priorities to improve a number of areas within London’s vast arts and culture sector.
Mayor's priorities for culture
The size and main features of London’s cultural sector
We look at some of the most pressing issues London’s culture faces, particularly in the current economic conditions.
Better access to culture in London
Who misses out on London’s culture and why? We examine the major barriers to participation, and how we can help more Londoners to experience and enjoy our city’s culture.
Education and skills
Ensuring that children, young people and students can easily experience and participate in London’s art and culture, and improving skills and training in the creative workforce.
Understanding and protecting London’s physical environment
London’s varied environment is one of its great assets, with ancient buildings alongside cutting-edge contemporary architecture. It is important that London’s heritage and public spaces are understood and protected and provide a setting in which creativity can flourish.
The London 2012 Games
Hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games gives London a once-in-a-generation opportunity to boost it’s culture sector. The Olympics will provide London with a lasting cultural legacy and to this end the GLA is working with partnerson the Cultural Olympiad programme - a series of projects and activities in the run up to 2012.
The Mayor's Cultural Strategy
Following extensive public consultation, the Mayor published his Cultural Strategy, Cultural Metropolis on 15 November 2010.
Read the Cultural Strategy here
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